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Passionate about nature, dedicated to saving it. Since we started on our mission in 1889, the threats to nature have continued to grow, but we've grown to meet them too.

We’re now the largest nature conservation charity in the country, consistently delivering successful conservation, forging powerful new partnerships with other organisations and inspiring others to stand up and give nature the home it deserves.

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Cairngorms Connect Next Generation Officer - RSPB

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Salary: £25,723.00 - £27,614.00 per annum, pro rata

Hours: Part Time, 22.5 hours per week

Contract: 12 months

Location: Edge of Aviemore, PH22 - Hybrid / Flexi

Through this role, you will further develop the Cairngorms Connect Youth Involvement Programme. Working with staff from across the partnership, you will have the flexibility to work in different settings and the confidence to develop resources and deliver activities on a range of ecological restoration topics, inspiring local young people to take an active interest in their local area. You will work closely with staff across the partnership, to deliver a programme of activities with local schools and youth groups, to build understanding, develop skills and inspire local rural career paths.

Senior Policy Officer – Water - RSPB

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Salary: £38,389.00 - £41,212.00 Per Annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Location: Flexible in UK
An outstanding opportunity to help turn around the alarming state of England's freshwater habitats. You will work with a diverse range of teams across the RSPB to drive forward our policy and advocacy work on water and coastal policy issues and influence important debates and decisions across the England.

Coastal Officer - Tir Canol - RSPB

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Location: Dyfi Estuary or local surroundings
Salary: £26,397.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata
Contract: 20 months
Hours: 4 days per week.

This is an exciting opportunity. The role is fixed-term for 20 months and will deliver the Changing Tides - a Community Guide to a Resilient Coast project funded by the Heritage Fund. You will focus on creating a handbook for coastal adaptation based in the Dyfi Estuary but with wider applications. This project will use a series of co-design and co-production workshops.

Assistant Warden - Lower Lough Erne - RSPB

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Have you got experience of practical habitat management, and do you want to make a difference to the wildlife of Lower Lough Erne, co Fermanagh? If so, apply to join our team!

Location: Lower Lough Erne Islands
Salary: £26,379.00 - £28,319.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

The Reserve is made up 47 islands on Lower Lough Erne, the UK’s second largest freshwater lake.

Nature Officer - Tir Canol - RSPB

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Location: Dyfi Valley and wider Tir Canol project area

Salary: £32,022.00 - £34,377.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata

Contract: 3 Years

Hours: 30 hours (4 days) per week

The role focuses on the tree resource centred around the Dyfi Valley and wider Tir Canol project area, which has some of Wales’ most specular scenery and the species to match.

Site Manager - RSPB

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Location: Corrimony, Inverness, Highland, IV63 6TW
Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 pa
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

Are you looking to combine your passion for nature with your land management and communication skills? If so this is the prefect role for you! Set in the North West Highlands, RSPB Corrimony reserve is part of the iconic Glen Affric landscape. We are looking for a site manager to be based in the local community and manage our nature reserve.

Conservation Scientist - RSPB

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We are seeking Conservation Scientists to join the RSPB’s UK Marine Science team in an exciting fixed-term role for a minimum of 6 months, work will be both field-based and analytical/desk-based. The role provides a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of research to improve our understanding of seabird distribution, movements, and behaviour.

Location: Flexible in UK

Salary: £36,577.00 - £39,267.00 Per Annum

Contract: Minimum 6 months

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Project Officer - Nature Connections - RSPB

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We are looking for a Nature Connections Project Officer with a passion for nature and its benefits to people to develop and deliver our work with NHS Lothian Charity in Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital, as part of a wider programme of Giving Nature a Home (GNaH) activities.

Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £25,723.00 - £27,614.00 pro rata
Hours: Part-Time, 22.5 hours pwk
Contract: 6 months fixed-term – start after 1st May 2024

This role will continue to build on the successful pilot project delivered in the hospital grounds and wards in 2023.

Rural Surveyor - RSPB

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Location: Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire - Remote
Salary: £30,940.00 - £40,040.00 Per Annum

We have a wonderful opportunity for an experienced and self-motivated Rural Surveyor to join the RSPB England’s Land Team

Land and Property Management: - Carrying out due diligence to identify, mitigate and manage the legal, reputational and financial aspects of rural property over land, buildings, offices and business premises, including rent reviews, repairing obligations, landlord consents, land management contracts, and compliance with grant conditions.

Rural Surveyor - RSPB

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Location: Northwest of England - Remote
Salary: £30,940.00 - £40,040.00 Per Annum

This is a limited-term contract role of 18 months.

We have a wonderful opportunity for an experienced Rural Surveyor to join the RSPB England’s Land Team.

Key Responsibilities include: Land and Property Management: - Carrying out due diligence to identify, mitigate and manage the legal, reputational and financial aspects of rural property over land, buildings, offices and business premises, including rent reviews, repairing obligations, landlord consents, land management contracts, and compliance with grant conditions. Advising on agricultural matters and farming systems, agri-environment agreement work, granting leases and licences, e.g. sporting, fishing, grazing, negotiating wayleaves and easements.

Senior Site Manager - RSPB

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Salary: £41,593.00 - £44,651.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours pwk
Contract: Permanent
Location: Haweswater, Penrith, Cumbria
We are looking for an organised, dynamic, and passionate person to lead the team and work programme delivery on this large and exciting upland partnership reserve. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving and overseeing a significant and complex work programme across Haweswater with a wider landscape impact. The successful candidate will have an important external role, building positive relationships with key partners and stakeholders, so that partnerships policies and messages are understood and furthered within relevant partnerships, communities, the media and to a range of stakeholders and decision makers.

Seasonal Assistant Warden - RSPB

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Salary: £25,723.00 - £27,614.00 Per Annum

Contract: 3rd June - 20th December 2024

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week.

Location: Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project, SS4

We have an exciting opportunity at Wallasea Island for someone looking to gain valuable experience at the start of their career, as a Seasonal Assistant Warden on a large nature reserve on the Essex coast. Wallasea Island is a 750ha reserve made up of intertidal habitats, lowland wet grassland and saline lagoons and offers a great opportunity to pick up vital skills to help enhance your career. The successful applicant will undertake a range of habitat management and species monitoring activities.

Warden - RSPB

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Salary: £28,331.00 - £30,415.00 Per Annum
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Lakenheath Fen

Cavenham is a restored quarry working of 70 hectares in size. Most of the site is dry acid grassland and supports a significant population of breeding stone curlews. Lakenheath Fen is a wetland RSPB created from arable farmland over the last 25 years and its reedbeds support bitterns, marsh harriers and cranes in nationally important numbers. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and resourceful person to join our small team. The successful candidate would lead on the management of the Cavenham site and would assist in the management at Lakenheath.

Fieldwork Assistants x 11 – LIFE Raft - RSPB

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Salary: £21,255.00 - £22,818.00 pa
Hours: Full-time
Contract: Fixed-term until 30/04/2025
Location: Rathlin Island, Ballycastle

We require 11 Field Officers for the ‘LIFE Raft project - Rathlin Acting for Tomorrow’ project. LIFE Raft aims to remove invasive non-native ferrets and rats from Rathlin Island, NI’s most important seabird colony, and the successful candidate/s will play a pivotal role in the overall outcome. This is your opportunity to grow your conservation career and make a real impact.

Climate FORTH Project Officer - RSPB

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Salary: £25,723.00 - ££27,614.00 Per Annum

This is a Fixed-Term Full-Time role until 31st July 2026.

Location: Skinflats and Black Devon Reserve - Hybrid

In this Project Officer role you will support project delivery by leading business and tourism sector engagement activity that supports the delivery of our sustainable tourism objectives.

Livestock Person - RSPB

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Salary: £28,331.00 - £30,415.00 Pro Rata

Duration: Full Time 37.5 Hours per week, 5.5 months FTC

Location: RSPB Nene Washes, PE7

This contract is for a stockperson on a 5.5 month contract starting in May 2024, working as part of a 4-person team managing the 800 hectare RSPB Nene Washes Nature Reserve. The purpose of the post is to assist with the management of 1000 grazing beef cattle; your main duties will include daily shepherding, cattle movements, treating ailments and maintaining infrastructure.

Volunteer Posts

Brushcutter Operator, Cornwall Reserves, RSPB

Schools on Reserves Leader (Outdoor Education), RSPB

RSPB Conwy Environmental Education Internship (Outdoor Education), RSPB Conwy

Residential Volunteer (Trainee Warden 6 months), RSPB

Residential Volunteer - Insh Marshes, RSPB

Residential Conservation Volunteer, RSPB

Residential Volunteering Opportunities, RSPB

Schools On Reserves Leader (Outdoor Education), RSPB

Residential Volunteer - West Sedgemoor, Somerset, RSPB

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